Subject: Re: ifconfig alias for an ip from a different net?
To: David Wetzel <dave@turbocat.de>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/02/2000 15:38:19
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 02:21:31PM +0200, David Wetzel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to convince my computer to use the second network too..
> 
> 212.41.163.32-47 (32 is the network adr and 47 the broadcast)
> 
> 212.41.163.33 sould be a virtual host for www.
> 
> alice# cat /etc/ifconfig.tlp0
> inet alice.turbocat.de netmask 255.255.255.240
> inet 212.41.163.32 netmask 255.255.255.255 alias
> 
> the ip for alice is 212.41.163.199
> 
> Somehow, I should tell my computer not to route the new IPs to my cisco and  
> that it should use the alias.

As the main IP and alias are not on the same network I think you should
use 'inet 212.41.163.32 netmask 255.255.255.240 alias' instead.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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